Teens on a Year that Changed Everything

Here's one more story from the New York Times article. If you'd like to read more go to: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/learning/teens-pandemic-art.html?referringSource=articleShare

Parrish's Story:

I drew this series in mid-April while sitting silently on many Zoom calls. In quarantine, my interactions with other people were all fit neatly into little rectangles on my screen.

Being young is about stretching and growing. We pull away from our parents, our homes, our schools, but as Covid-19 struck our communities we were reined in to all the situations that youth is about diverging from. For some, it was a time of reflection. For many, it was a dark period of isolation. For a generation, it was a defining collective experience.